Faculty of Simmons University in the 1920s, including Rev. C. H. Parrish, President. The bottom of the photograph reads: "Faculty." The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute...

Simmons University commencement in 1924 taking place during construction of the boys' dormitory designed by African-American architectural firm Plato and Evans. The university has gone by many names since its founding in 1879: The Kentucky Normal...

Simmons University commencement in 1924 taking place during construction of the boys' dormitory designed by African-American architectural firm Plato and Evans. The back of the photograph reads: "Commencement Time at Simmons University." The...

Address: 1839 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. In 1883, this building was constructed for the American Printing House for the Blind, the oldest publishing house for the visually impaired in the United States.

YMCA Colored Branch, Louisville, Kentucky. Three-story, narrow brick building with a three-section slanted roof of curved shingle. Stone fence at entrance and stone embellishments around the one front first floor window, which is wide and domed....

Monument to Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, who died in office in 1850. The monument was dedicated on September 20, 1883, in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery on Brownsboro Road, Louisville, Kentucky. The cemetery was...

Monument at left to Zachary Taylor, twelfth President of the United States, who died in office in 1850, and mausoleum at right. The monument was dedicated on September 20, 1883, in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery on Brownsboro Road,...

Drawing of Jefferson County Courthouse, Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky, with people walking, riding horses, and driving horse-drawn carriages in front of building. Written on the bottom edge of image: "Court House; Published & copyrighted,...

Delacoosha, an estate in Pewee Valley, was owned by Albert Burge in the late nineteenth century. Annie Fellows Johnston was visiting the Burges when she met Hattie Cochran, Rebecca Porter, and the Old Colonel, George Washington Weissinger, and was...

A woman stands in the doorway of a brick house with three children standing next to the building. Water or snow is on the ground in front of them. Flood line markers are on the building for February 18, 1884; April 2, 1913; and February 16, 1883....

Graph documenting flood levels of Louisville floods in January 1937, February 1884, March-April 1913, February 1883, January 1907, January 1913, and March-April 1933. Hydrograph of seven major floods of Ohio River at Louisville, Ky. May, 1940....

Hospital College of Medicine 1882 - 1883 - Composite photograph for the Hospital College of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky, of faculty and graduating students in the medical school class of 1882 and 1883. Rows of individual oval-shaped portraits...

Homes and a German Catholic Church at the corner of Wall Street and Maple Street in Jeffersonville, Indiana sit surrounded by flood waters from the flood that occurred in February 1883. Men in boats are in the foreground.

John Dorsey Atchison was born in 1852 in Daviess County, Kentucky. He attended the Oakland Seminary and West Kentucky College. He read law with W. N. Sweeney and was admitted to the bar in 1877. He served as Daviess County School Commissioner from...

William Pollitt McClain was born in 1849 in Henderson, Kentucky. He attended Notre Dame College, graduating in 1869. He then attended the law department of the University of Virginia, graduating in 1872. After practicing law in Missouri, he...

Catalog for Hospital College of Medicine 1884. Includes medical faculty, program information, enrolled students for 1883, and graduates for 1874-1883. Printed on cover: Announcement of the Regular Session of 1884 of the Hospital College of...

Catalog for Hospital College of Medicine 1883. Includes medical faculty and program information. Printed on cover: 1883. Special Announcement of the Tenth Regular Session of the Hospital College of Medicine, (Medical Department of Central...

Catalog for the Kentucky School of Medicine for 1883. Includes list of board of regents and faculty, program information, and medical class 1882. Printed on cover: Twenty-Seventh Annual Announcement of the Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville,...